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May The Source Be With You! Articles about Open Source and Free Software as a philosophy, and its application to software development and project management.

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UPDATED APRIL 8, 2020

To keep this tag clean and meaningful, please ensure your post fits into at least one of the following categories:

Organizing, managing, running, or working in an Open Source project.
Open Source philosophy, licensing, and/or practical and legal topics thereof.
Advocacy and adoption of Open Source philosophy.

DO NOT use this tag if you are simply using technologies which happen to be open source.

You should NOT use this tag for any of the following:

Promoting open source projects, such as feature lists or announcements. (Use #news or Listings.)
Contributor requests. (Use #contributorswanted or Listings.)
Tutorials/articles that happen to use an open source tool. (Use appropriate technology tags.)
Showing off something you've built that happens to be open source. (Use the #showdev tag.)
Sharing lists of open source projects. (Use #githunt or the appropriate technology tags.)

Projects must comply with the Open Source Definition (see below) to legally use the term "open source".

As all "Free Software" officially complies with the standards of Open Source anyway, this tag covers both (collectively, FOSS).

about #opensource

Open Source is so much more than "you can read the code". It is formally defined by the Open Source Initiative.

"Open Source" should not be confused with the similar Free Software, which is defined by the Free Software Foundation. Generally, all Free Software is also Open Source, and the two camps often cooperate; however, the concepts are distinct! (The tags are merged here on DEV.to for simplicity, however.)

Open Source Hardware is defined and overseen by the Open Source Hardware Assocation

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saksh for OWASP BLT

Mar 4

The first step in open source

#beginners #devjournal #motivation #opensource

2 min read

clearloop for CrabTalk

Mar 15

Seeing what your agents are doing: the task registry problem

#ai #architecture #opensource #openwalrus

5 min read

clearloop for CrabTalk

Mar 15

Context compaction in agent frameworks

#ai #research #opensource #openwalrus

14 min read

KPCOFGS

Mar 15

I ran npm audit and DepGra on the same project — here's what each one caught

#security #opensource #python #webdev

4 min read

machuz

Mar 15

Git Archaeology — A Complete Theory of Software Universes

#opensource #productivity #git #career

7 min read

Abhishek

Mar 15

Vectra: A Provider-Agnostic RAG SDK That Lets You Swap Anything Without Rewriting Code

#discuss #ai #opensource #showdev

4 min read

Gopal Yami

Feb 9

Implementing the Agentic Trust Framework: Zero Trust for AI Agents

#security #ai #opensource #typescript

3 min read

Feb 9

I Spent 48 Hours Red-Teaming the "Magic AI Assistant" Everyone's Hyping. Here's What I Found.

#openclaw #llm #opensource #clawdbot

9 min read

Ivan

Feb 9

Wireview Monitor – Linux userspace driver for WIREVIEW Pro II GPU monitoring

#opensource #linux #monitoring #cli

1 min read

vinz

Mar 4

Stop Tab-Switching for AI: I Built a Lightweight Rust Popup to Rephrase and Reply Instantly 🦀

#rust #tauri #ai #opensource

2 min read

Benny

Mar 15

Why We Built HttpArena — A Better Way to Benchmark HTTP Frameworks

#webdev #performance #opensource #http

3 min read

Mar 15

I built the first open-source FP8 linear solver in Python — 2-3x faster than cuBLAS

#python #cuda #gpu #opensource

3 min read

parmarjatin4911@gmail.com

Mar 15

Deploy OpenClaw on AWS EC2 with Amazon Bedrock Using Terraform — No API Keys Required

#ai #aws #opensource #terraform

6 min read

Elliot LIU

Mar 13

We Scanned 17 Popular MCP Servers — Here's What We Found

#security #ai #mcp #opensource

4 min read

machuz

Mar 15

Git Archaeology #15 — AI Creates Stars, Not Gravity

#ai #opensource #git #career

14 min read

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